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CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

You'll Find No Finer

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

"HONG KONG.

Qusan's,

LE

Du Barry, Woman of

2.30. 6.10, 7.16 and 9:20 p.m.

Passion.

Norma Talmadge and

Conrad Nagel.

King's.

Film in Town!

Here's the Key to Joy!

An American Tragedy." Phillips Halmes and Sylvia Sidney.

Central,

Holiday."

SISTER IN COUNCIN

Anne Harding,

World.

Happy Days."

Star.

Ann. Harding saled) and Mary Astor in an; appealing scone fram the Pathe dialoquei production, "Holiday

لوگو

NEXT CHANGE.

ZANE GREY'S

THE BORDER

LEGION"

WH

RICHARD JACK

ARLEN HOLT FAY WRAY EUGENE PALLETTE A Garamount Picture ===

Coming Shortly!

Carl Laemmle

presents

"MOTHER'S

MILLIONS"

With

MAY ROBSON

James Hall

Frances Dade

KOWLOON.

The Kjes.”

Greta Garbo.

COMING.

J

The Border Legion."--Contral

The Chance of A Life Time.".

King's.

"East Lynne."-King's..

Doctor's Wives."-King'e.

The Smiling Lieutenant."

Maurice Chevalier-King's.

Daddy Long Legs,

Janet Caynor and Warner Bax

ter--King':

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.

NEXT CHANGE SUNDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER

HONGKONG'S FINEST CHEMA

SHOWING TO-DAY Ar 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.P.M.

IT MIGHT BE

YOU!

Sen his story-of desire, love, folly and fear. Ther: `judge him!"

Featuring

Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney and Frances Dee

AMERICAN TRAGEDY

a Paramount Picture

Directed by JOSEF von STERNBARG Basca, upon -THEODORK DREISEN'S

Novel

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

"STAR OR TYPIST.

ANN HARDING SAYS SHE

DOES NOT CARE.

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demanded his ticket. In suite off Frances Dee is probably the most Heifetz' explanations the soldier i remarkable figurra of the trio. A was amdant. He had orders. No few months ago an unknown extra, ticket, nb admission. Aft end-she accidentally slipped into pro- lese plending Heifetz was trasmninene in support of Maurice permitted to see the mannger. The Chevalier in "Playboy of Paris. (latter arrived, breathless and he proved-capable in a few minor apologetic, only to discover that the raley and then came her big thance Her success as an netress is not soldiers would not listen to han in An American Tragedy." Ann Harding's proudest boass. Faither, couly the superior officer She has fermently said that she is could countermand the orde?! The quite pleased with the fact that she could earn her living by doing stemographic work if she ever decid- e quit the screen. As a very young girl, she rebelled against the Father circumscribed life of

rmy officer's daughter. When she, her mother and her sister went to New York on a visit, she obtained a job as a sypist is the offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance

· Company,

The rest of Mias Harding's carcer gerdly known. She function ed as "render" for Famous Play- ers-Lasky. Then she joined the Provipestown Players, When she was selected for a leading role she designed her, comunergial position, and has since progressed stendily as star of stage and screen.

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Mi Harding is soon in the Featured cle of Philip Barry's sen- sational drama. Holiday Pathe dialogue picture which is on view at the Central Theatre. notable cast includes Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Owsloy, Elizabeth Forrester, Hallam Cooley, William Holden, Creighton Hale and Mabel Forrest. Edward H. Grifith directed.

MILITARY

DISCIPLINE.

HEIFETZ ASKED TO SHOW HIS TICKET.

When a great artist travels in foreign lands, many unscheduled happenings are likely to occur. Heifetz, who will be heard in re- cital here on Friday, December 4,

next fiften. minutes were spent trying to locate the enamasding | ofeer. In the end mariers were righted and Heifetz was allowed to enter und play his own', courert i But the audience, which had waited a quarter of an hour beyond the scheduled time, hever knew how near it had beru to going Heifetz- less that night!.

RUSSIAN REFUGEES

IN NORMA TALMADGE FILM.

Victims of the Russian, revolution med money by pretending to he evolutionists in Narina Talmudge's. new United Artists starring pictur

which is coming to the Queen's Du Barry, Woman of Passion"

Theatre to-day.

They were employed as extras in scenes showing à Paris mob storm- ing the palace of King Louis XV. Among them were a Cossnek rap! Bain, a Czarist general and a Rus- Bian sprites. Hollywood has a large colony of Russians who were forced to fer for their lives when the Soviet wine came into existence.

The picture, & Sam Taylor pro. duction, has a cast including Con- rud Nagel, William Farnum, Hobart Hopworth, Edgar Norton, Elrich Haupt and Allison Slap worth.

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'AN AMERICAN

TRAGEDY."

Conrad Nagel, featured in "Da Barry Woman of Passion

NEW LIGHTNING. MACHINE.

REALISTIC FLASHES OF LIGHTNING..

~ RALPH LYNN We WINIFRED

SHOTTER"

THE CHANCE NIGHT-TIME British and Dominions Pictives Godenly

With

ROBERT ENGLISH KENNETH KOVE

DINO GALVANI

SUNDAY WILSHIN

A BRITISH PICTURE

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TEL. 25313.

A CHAUFFEUR "FOR A FORD.

HEADMASTER'S APPEAL.

CONVICTION LIPHELD BY

"FULL" COURT.

FINE REDUCED.

Judgment was delivered by th Full Court yesterday in the appeal by Chan Wop Cho, headmaster of the Youk Chee Days' and Girls' | School, “191,' Nathan Road," "againat hie 'conviction on a charge ander the Emergency. Regulations of bes ing in possession of a letter bf, an anti-Japanese nature' which was considered likely to use a veagh of the prace. The conviction was confirmed and the, fine was rethread. to 825.

As a sequel to a police raid on the school during the anti-Jupancar troubles and their discoveries, Chan Woon Cho and an assistant master, named Eau Wing Sang. wore, convicted for different offea- .ces, the fariner being sentenced to six months' harů labour and the intter

to twelve months' hard lab

10:11.

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 230, 3.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

JORBLEMA, SOLENČKA

NORMA

Vivid !

Daring! Vital!

HALMADGE

SAM TAYLORT

PRODUCTION

"Du BARRY

Subsequently the otsa was open WOMAN

ed at the Kowloon Magistracy when the "hondmaster's conviction, Wils re- duced to a fine of 8500, while the sentence of imprisonment,en the other was confirmed. -

On appeal before the Full Court, the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) and the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Lindselallowed the appeal of the assistant coaster. Lau, while that of the beadmaster Chan, was heard de novo, and judgment, was reserved!

The Judgment,

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Giving judgment in the appeal of the handmaster, the Chief Jus

tice said:At the close of the casu for the prosecution on the relear" ing, we held that there was a coac (to answer, fe. that there were ovi- To engage a chaliffeur for a Forddenes leading to the inference that sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet Hedda the objecticable latter, exhibit two, was in the possession of the aufen. Hopper, who is appearing in dans with big knowledge. When a Holiday," "a Pathe picture feathing is found on a person's pre- turing Ann Harding, paid a chauf-mises, the place where it is foun feur for two months to run her of great importanen. If the evi. Ford. And this is why

dence is that it was found on the

the celebrated stage meter, who hap-tound in the defendant's private Some years ago De Wolf Hopper, premises, it would not be possible to infer knowledge. If it was pened to bs Miss Hopper'a husband at the time, was the world's worst safe, knowledge could be inferred. automobile driver. Telegraph poles. Here, the document, was found trucks, fire hydrants all had a in a pile of papers on the defend- The defendant's evi- peculiar fascination for the Hopper | ant's desk. gasoline chariot and whenever i dence simply was (1) a denial of sighted one of these it reemed to knowledge and (2) a statement that run right ny and kiss it. The ex all the teachers were allowed to periences were a severe strain on open letters. He called no other Miss Hopper's nerves.

She swore evidence nad he made no attempt to never to drive one of the peaky show by whom the document was things. Then she went to California, opened or received. Automóbiles ure na indispensable in We think that he has failed to | California us grása skirts in Waikiki. raise any reasonable doubt as to Miss Hopper purchased a Ford. the correctness of the inference re- But she wouldn't drive it. She en-

ferred 1.0 above. We, therefore,. Raged a chaufför. Then, after confirm the conviction as regards seven, weeks, out on the open high exhibit two. way where there

There is, however, no hydrants or pedestrians and few of guilty intention.. as distinct from telegraph poles, Hedda gained

courge.

RO fire

evidence

knowledge of possession. We. there-

"Let me try the thing." she said fore, reduce the fine to $25.

As the conviction is confirmed --and she didn't hit one telegraph and the fine is reduced, there will pole. The spell had been brokene no crder as to ensis, Now Miss Hopper gadivanrs around

The Puisne Judge, concurred in

in an expensive machine and to this finding.

date hasn't even scrutched a fender The chauffeur, however, is still so tained in cace of emergency,

The cast of Holiday" which was directed by Edward H. Griffith. and which came to the Central Theatre last night, includes Mary Astor, Edward Exmett Horton, Robert Ames and other notable stage and screen players.

|FROM EMPERORS TO BILL COLLECTORS.

People

numerous enough 10 A new type of lightning machine, populate and run a couple of royal palaces were assembled at the Para- specially designed for sound pic mount New York studio for the tires, was used in Roland West's cast of The Smiling Lieutenant,"

The Bat Whispers." production, featuring Chester Morris, which comes to the Queen's Theatre shortly.

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in which Maurice Chevalier is stac red.

The east list prepared by Ernsi

has learnt by this time to expect teresting motion picture script uver, West, and a crew of electrical ex-nekoys to emperors, with a drum-

COMING

TO THE

KINGS.

?PASSION

MITH

CONRAD NAGEL

A WILLIAM YADNIM

A nighty drama of a beautiful romance in which Norma Talmadge as the great Enchantress saorifices lose for luxury and the risks lite for her ma

United Artists Plotura

NEXT CHANGE

JOSEPH LE SCHENCK PRALENTS

THE

BAT WHISPERS

ROLAND WEST'S

· PRODUCTION

WITH

CHESTER MORRIS

A man and a girl pit

their brain against the sinister mind of an arch criminal who bas baffled the greatest dotectives.

STAR

HEIFETZ 10-DAY & TO-MORROW

THE

It was perfected by William Labisch, who directed the produc What is said to be the mostin- McClellan, hand electrician for tion, called for everything from the unexpected.. Last year his

mer, maida and footmen thrown neen in Hollywood, was prepared perts at United Artists Studios. popularity resulted in n most em- by Josef von Sternbers, the dire The old type of lightning machine barrussing situation for him. He

was found unavailable for sound In the picture there are two Lor, and Samuel Hoffenstein, for pictures. The now and had a sound palaces for which attendants and WORLD-RENOWNED playing in Bucharest and the filming of weeks beforo Che concert the

based Tragedy,"

Theodore proof booth. It looked like a pair retinue had to be hired. One is in hall whe completely sold out, One.

Draiser's novel,.

a giant scissors, and when it made Austria, and the other in the fie of the leading student bodies of

contact an electrical storm took. tional kingdom of Finusenthurm. the city who had failed to secure The script contains thirty-four place on the set, throwing minin-To accommodate both, Lubitsch sent tickets was enraged, The irate sequences of various lengths, altare bolts of lightning clear across a call for two acts of coachmeri and. young Roumanians, called a meet-blended into one another to give aa giant stage.

footmen. There are two groups of

Wow

cert.

An American

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20.

a woman

storm-tossed by life.

The inest dramatic

VIRTUOSO

role of the flaining beauty of

OF THE VIOLIN will give

the screen!

on.

at

8.30 P.M.

ing and awore to amnah up the smooth execution of the dramatic The effect was terrifying and lackies too, while chambermaids.. seats on the evening of the con- story. In several sequences no word spectacular. Member of the cast orderlics, messenger boys, enlisted ONE RECITAL ONLY

Accordingly, when Heifetz in spoken; in one sequence only were amazed at the realistic fashos soldiers and officers crowded the net Lawrence Gray arrived, bo was informed that he two words are heard. The entire of lightning when the apparatus at the studio.

had been forced by the situation script was proceded by chapter was used for the first time. Yot A king, an emperor, six generals, FRIDAY, DEC. 4TH into neking the protection of the synopsis of each of the two volumes there was not the slightest danger. two lieutenante, beside the one local police.

which make up the Dreiser novel. Playoro in the production include" played by Chavalier, a BaroDERS,, AN The great night came Heifetz Phillips Holmes, recently seen in Uns Markel, Gustav Ton Beyfferlitz, adjutant, a master of the bridal with his necompanist arrived at "Stolen Heaven," Sylvia Sidney Grayco Hampton, Maude Eburne, amber head waiter, and the the stage door to find it guarded and Frances Doe have the leading Charles Dow Clark, Spencer Char- inevitable bill collector administer by soldiers with bayonota. Heroles in this drama which is now tora, William Bagewell, Ben Bard, ed the duties that palace life re- tried to pass through. The guard showing at the King's Theatre. B. E. Jennings and Haugh Huntley.quires

Edmund Breese

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

PLAN NOW OPEN

BOOK BARLY.

GRETA

GARBO

with

THE KISS

CONRAD NAGEL HOLMES HERBERT

directed by Jacques Feyde

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